Sentences with phrase «toward hubris»

We humans have a well - documented tendency toward hubris, arrogantly imagining ourselves at center stage, with everything revolving around us.

If you start to veer toward hubris or just plain lie, those bluffs can get you into trouble.

Not exact matches

My «vitriol» toward Jobs (an easy out for you) is in direct proportion to what he is obviously trying (successfully) to do but should not have said openly in a world that cares about the appearance of price - fixing — but a certain kind of hubris caused him to blurt out his foreknowledge of what the group of publishers would be doing — after he suggested they should.

(Much as I had hubris toward the end of the bull phase... let me stab myself.)

To Greenfield, forcing Spitzer to resign creates a missed opportunity for him to realize that «his lack of mercy and understanding toward others was terribly wrong» and for Spitzer to become a better person «if he recognizes his hubris.»